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Gender and Technology in the Making - Cockburn, Cynthia, Dr., and Ormrod, Susan
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This innovative book demonstrates the making of gender and technology as comparable social processes, one helping shape the other. The authors take as an example the microwave oven, a recent innovation in domestic technology that neatly encapsulates the technology//gender relation. In the microwave, masculine engineering encounters an age old woman s technology: cooking. The authors show how the microwave begins as a state-of-the-art masculine technology, is translated in the retail trade into a `family commodity, one ...

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Gender and Technology in the Making 1993, Sage Publications Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780803988118

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